The one website that really should not fail an ADA audit.
Law firm websites are places of public accommodation under ADA Title III — and a firm being named in an accessibility demand letter is a credibility problem as much as a legal one. AccessProof audits your site on a schedule, produces court-ready PDFs, and gives you the dated remediation record you would advise any client to keep.
Accessibility risks specific to Law Firms.
Reputational stakes if the firm itself is sued
A law firm receiving an ADA web accessibility demand letter is an avoidable embarrassment. Prospective clients judge competence by the firm's own compliance. The defensible posture — a continuous, dated WCAG record — is exactly what a firm would counsel a client to maintain.
Inaccessible client intake forms
Contact and case-evaluation forms are the firm's primary conversion path. Unlabeled fields, poor error handling, and keyboard traps both fail WCAG and lose real leads who cannot complete the form.
Resource libraries and downloadable PDFs
Firms publish guides, whitepapers, and legal documents — frequently as untagged PDFs that screen readers cannot parse. WCAG applies to document content, and a resource library is high-visibility.
Practice-area pages built by multiple vendors
Law firm sites accumulate pages from successive agencies and CMS templates, each with different accessibility quality. Color contrast, heading structure, and link-text issues vary page to page with no single owner.
Attorney bios, video, and embedded media
Headshot galleries, embedded video testimonials, and event recordings often lack alt text, captions, and accessible controls — common serious-level WCAG failures on exactly the pages prospects visit most.
No evidence if a complaint arrives
Without dated scans, a firm responding to a complaint has nothing to show it was monitoring conformance. AccessProof's archived PDF reports are the contemporaneous record that turns "we meant to" into "we were actively remediating".
What regulators expect from Law Firms.
In the US, courts in most circuits treat business websites — including law firm sites — as places of public accommodation subject to ADA Title III. Firms have themselves received website accessibility demand letters. State statutes (California Unruh Act, New York Human Rights Law) add overlapping private rights of action. WCAG 2.2 Level AA is the standard cited in the overwhelming majority of settlements.
For firms doing public-sector or government work, Section 508 conformance may also be relevant to procurement. A single WCAG 2.2 AA audit covers ADA Title III practice and the Section 508 / EN 301 549 criteria, giving the firm one defensible standard across exposure.
Built for the law firms workflow.
Dated remediation record you would advise keeping
Scheduled scans archived as timestamped PDFs give the firm the contemporaneous evidence of active remediation that materially weakens an ADA claim. It is the exact posture lawyers recommend to clients.
Intake-form auditing that protects conversions
We flag the label, error-handling, and keyboard issues on your contact and case-evaluation forms — fixing them satisfies WCAG and recovers leads who currently cannot submit.
Per-criterion WCAG citations
Each finding is mapped to a specific WCAG success criterion with the exact CSS selector, so your web vendor can fix issues precisely instead of guessing.
Multi-page monitoring for accreted sites
Monitor practice-area templates and high-traffic pages on a schedule. Catch the contrast or heading regression an agency introduces during a refresh before it lingers for months.
Self-serve, no retainer
Starter ($29/mo) covers a typical firm site; Pro ($79/mo) covers a multi-office or multi-brand portfolio. No consulting contract, no per-seat licensing — just the audit and the evidence.
Agency-friendly for legal web shops
Agencies that build law firm sites use AccessProof to deliver and monitor accessibility across a portfolio of clients from one dashboard, with white-labelable PDF evidence per client.
From $0 to unlimited sites.
1 site · monthly · HTML
5 sites · weekly · PDF + email
25 sites · daily · API + CI/CD
Unlimited · hourly · branding
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Law Firms-specific questions.
Can a law firm really be sued over its website?
Yes. Under ADA Title III, business websites are widely treated as places of public accommodation, and law firms have received accessibility demand letters like any other business. Beyond the legal exposure, it is a reputational issue: prospective clients reasonably expect a firm to meet the standards it advises others to meet.
What standard should our firm target?
WCAG 2.2 Level AA. It is the standard cited in the overwhelming majority of ADA website settlements and aligns with DOJ direction. Conforming to 2.2 AA also covers the criteria referenced by Section 508 and EN 301 549, so a single audit addresses your full realistic exposure.
Our site was built by an outside agency — can we still use AccessProof?
Absolutely. AccessProof audits the live site regardless of who built it, and each finding includes the exact selector and WCAG criterion. Hand the report to your agency and they can remediate precisely. Many legal web agencies also run AccessProof directly on behalf of their firm clients.
Does it handle our downloadable legal PDFs?
AccessProof scans web (HTML) accessibility and flags where PDF downloads exist. PDF accessibility (tagging, reading order) is a separate discipline; our blog covers it, and we recommend routing flagged documents to a PDF remediation workflow alongside your web fixes.
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